
The Fire Boom | Mike Davis
Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.

Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.

Biographies and memoirs of people who've lived extraordinary, complex lives including Andrée Blouin, Rigoberta Menchu, and Toussaint Louverture.

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“On the eve of independence, this great country had to undergo such things—to write its history in letters of tears and blood. Poor Congo!”

A new series focusing on decolonisation and its aftermath: featuring Andrée Blouin's autobiography, and Adewale Maja-Pearce's uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy.

Books on work and Marxist theory, from across 50 years of publishing at Verso!

"If there's an audience with an appetite for blood it was created by the very industry and elites who now condemn it."



Critically-acclaimed and included in recent 2024 Best Books round-ups in the Guardian, Financial Times, ArtReview and more.


Matteo Pasquinelli on artificial intelligence, the division of labour, and digital utopias.